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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beatin...

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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an ho...

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The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hou...

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The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the...

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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should ...

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Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a gr...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing,...

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We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...

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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate muc...

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There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off

His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearl...

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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes sti...

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Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my g...

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I stand in the dark, start to unbutton. Then I hear something inside my body. I've broken, something...

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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is ...

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Marjane SatrapiThe Complete Persepolis

Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You...

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Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funn...

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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And t...

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You have as much laughter as you have faith.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...

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I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It ...

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And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His he...

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having he...

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You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

During the last ten years of his life my father gradually lost the power of speech. At first he simp...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord,...

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Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let yo...

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Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to clo...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of lif...

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is alw...

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Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed...

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The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finge...

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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy t...

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...

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We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Ou...

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You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer...

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I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your ...

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On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret...

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is ...

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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t...

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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are th...

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It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

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Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—bec...

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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think som...

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Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and g...

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You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child w...

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What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in adv...

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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn ...

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A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the go...

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...

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The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is...

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All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun...

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Thomas HardyJude the Obscure

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was...

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It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germani...

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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up...

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Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...

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They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more abo...

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It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and ...

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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighbo...

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,...

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...

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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...

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The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

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